The future of the open social web is brighter than ever 🌐

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Anil Dash (@anildash@me.dm)

This is a monumental day for the future of the social web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a...

Hiding who you really are until a president tells you it's okay is some pretty serious beta behavior

Hey, we could all self-host our social media profiles and choose different services to moderate, fact-check, and block based on our needs so we don't have to depend on billionaire owners and investors. Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Very excited about the beta launch of @npub1ekk7...vy6m, a brand new way to experience the open social web from @Flipboard . I've been using it for the last few weeks, and it's such a fresh take on custom feeds - spanning across multiple platforms, including Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Flipboard, and so many more. This is just a peek at what the future of the social web can look like, and it looks gorgeous 😍

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Mike McCue (@mike@flipboard.social)

Attached: 1 image Hello fediverse! This morning we’re opening a beta for Surf, a new kind of browser for a new kind of web — the open social ...

Some personal news: Excited to team up with [@snarfed.org](

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@snarfed.org snarfed.org snarfed snarfed@ryanb.org Open source and professional software engineer, father, pianist, writer, climate hawk,...

) to form A New Social, a non-profit focused on building cross-protocol services and tools for the open social web. It's time for social media to be centered around people, not platforms. Let's build bridges 🌐 https://www.anew.social/hello-social-web/

"Hey, everyone's a bit angry about the healthcare situation in the Americ-" Next Admin: "We're bringing polio back"

I wrote about the importance of tools that bring different platforms and protocols together and how I believe that's the future of an open social web owned by people, not platforms.

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Bridges & The Last Network Effect

We're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platfor...

One great feature that Mastodon and Bluesky have that Threads doesn't is that their leadership doesn't congratulate fascists for accomplishing their goals.

Starting to feel like billionaire-owned media products aren't good for us